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Thanks for making it open source.",{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"4825256","shock","Thank you!",{"value":89,"source":63,"evidence":90},"Works out-of-the-box on Heroku",[91],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"4825382","themgt","Thanks for this. It boots pretty much out-of-the-box on our platform thanks to the Heroku support: http:\u002F\u002Fdocverter.a.pogoapp.com\u002F - very cool buildpack use BTW I sent in a…",[96],{"value":97,"source":63,"evidence":98},"Hosted paid service did not succeed as a business",[99,100],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"4824846","z-factor","I've implemented a very nice word to html converter previously but market research have shown that people are barely willing to pay for such a service. 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